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Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
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The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
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There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, When will I know when to stop singing? he said, Your voice will tell you. And it is very, very difficult to sing now.
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In other words, it is what I do in the world that matters. When I traveled for three months in the Mideast, the places I wanted to go back to were Turkey and the Gaza Strip. It has to do with what Gandhi said: he found God in the eyes of the poor. Those are the places which were so moving that they were just unbearable.
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I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace I was trying to disturb the war.
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I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.
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We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
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I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.
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There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.
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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.
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Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by that, and of course by the way that he spoke, that made a huge dent in my belief system and my spirit.
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